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To submit a request, please visit the "contact" tab at the top of this page, or click on the link below. Please feel free to request a specific date for me to pray the Rosary with your intentions in mind. Each day, I will post the intentions prayed for on that day, indicating the requestor's name by first initial included parenthetically. Most requests remain on my intention list for at least one week. No request is too small... or too big! The power of prayer is awesome. In return, I simply ask that you pray for me-- that this project is an enriching and faith-deepening spiritual journey toward the Lord!

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Number of Rosaries Constructed to Date:2000

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I am just an ordinary guy who had an extraordinary experience at the grotto at Lourdes, France in October 2009. Since that time, I have been repeatedly struck with the thought that I should devote a full year-- 365 days in a row-- to praying the Holy Rosary. In response to that call, I have started this blog to both chronicle my efforts and provide the opportunity for anyone who sees it to make a prayer request. Each day I pray the Holy Rosary, I will keep the intentions sent to me in mind, through the intercession of the Blessed Mother, in service of the Lord.
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Why pray the Rosary every day for a year?

Each time the Blessed Virgin has appeared-- whether it be to Saint Bernadette Soubirous at Lourdes; to Lucia, Jacinta, and Francisco at Fatima; or to Mariette Beco at Banneux-- she has asserted the importance, saving grace, and power of praying the Holy Rosary on a daily basis. Based upon her words, the Rosary is penance and conversion for sinners, a pathway to peace, an end to war, and a powerful act of faith in Jesus Christ. Pope Paul VI presented the Rosary as a powerful means to reach Christ "not merely with Mary but indeed, insofar as this is possible to us, in the same way as Mary, who is certainly the one who thought about Him more than anyone else has ever done." To show us how this is done, perhaps no one has been more eloquent than the great Cardinal Newman, who wrote: "The great power of the Rosary consists in the fact that it translates the Creed into Prayer. Of course, the Creed is already in a certain sense a prayer and a great act of homage towards God, but the Rosary brings us to meditate again on the great truth of His life and death, and brings this truth close to our hearts. Even Christians, although they know God, usually fear rather than love Him. The strength of the Rosary lies in the particular manner in which it considers these mysteries, since all our thinking about Christ is intertwined with the thought of His Mother, in the relations between Mother and Son; the Holy Family is presented to us, the home in which God lived His infinite love."

As Mary said at Fatima, "Jesus wants to use you to make Me known and loved. He wishes to establish the devotion to My Immaculate Heart throughout the world. I promise salvation to whoever embraces it; these souls will be dear to God, like flowers put by Me to adorn his throne."

Today, October 24, we celebrate the feast day of Saint Anthony Mary Claret (1807-1870), monk, mystic, missionary, religious founder, social reformer, and “spiritual father of Cuba.” A priest for 35 years, he packed a lifetime of work into his vocation, inspiring all he met to the truth of the faith. Over the course of his lifetime, Saint Anthony wrote over 200 books and pamphlets, and over 25,000 sermons. Below, an excerpt from his writings entitled, "The Love of Christ Drives Us On."

Driven by the fire of the Holy Spirit, the holy apostles travelled throughout the earth. Inflamed with the same fire, apostolic missionaries have reached, are now reaching and will continue to reach the ends of the earth, from one pole to the other, in order to proclaim the word of God. They are deservedly able to apply to themselves those words of the apostle Paul: The love of Christ drives us on.The love of Christ arouses us, urges us to run, and to fly, lifted on the wings of holy zeal. The man who truly loves God also loves his neighbour. The truly zealous man is also one who loves, but he stands on a higher plane of love so that the more he is inflamed by love, the more urgently zeal drives him on. But if anyone lacks this zeal, then it is evident that love and charity have been extinguished in his heart. The zealous man desires and achieves all great things and he labours strenuously so that God may always be better known, loved and served in this world and in the life to come, for this holy love is without end.

Because he is concerned also for his neighbour, the man of zeal works to fulfil his desire that all men be content on this earth and happy and blessed in their heavenly homeland, that all may be saved, and that no one may perish for ever, or offend God, or remain even for a moment in sin. Such are the concerns we observe in the holy apostles and in all who are driven by the apostolic spirit.For myself, I say this to you: The man who burns with the fire of divine love is a son of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and wherever he goes, he enkindles that flame; he desires and works with all his strength to inflame all men with the fire of God’s love. Nothing deters him: he rejoices in poverty; he labours strenuously; he welcomes hardships; he laughs off false accusations; he rejoices in anguish. He thinks only of how he might follow Jesus Christ and imitate him by his prayers, his labours, his sufferings, and by caring always and only for the glory of God and the salvation of souls.